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Can someone help, i have been having trouble connected with my home universities vpn, for past 15-20days, it is an openvpn connection, so i have been using networkmanager-openvpn to import my config files, and they have worked previously, but for last 15-20 days i get connection timed out, all certificates used are correct, i have tried to connect on cli,

Connection activation failed: The connection attempt timed out

and it suggests to check journalctl logs (nothing erroneous i could find) i am also able to connect with this vpn with my phone (with openvpn official app with same files), and also i am able to connect to proton's vpns with my laptop, so i guess my device is not completely broken, i have tried to redownload my certificate files, recreating vpn profile, reinstalling networkmanager, nothing worked

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It may not apply to you but, from my own experience and assuming you are on KDE :

Remove your ethernet connection. Remove your VPN connection. Recreate an ethernet connection then the VPN. Never set 'autoconnect'.

Before putting your computer to sleep/shutdown, manually disconnect from the VPN.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

i am not on kde or ethernet, i also dont do auto connect